He Kyung-su and other generals advocated the elimination of this Baekje army, but Lee Seung-ding's ambition was even greater, he not only wanted to destroy this enemy army of 4,000 men, but also wanted to destroy the entire Baekje army in Kangju in one fell swoop. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Of course, it is difficult to say whether his idea will succeed, but when he told his idea to other generals, he received support from many people.

"Pass the order, when the enemy army is engaged, all units must not use all their strength, and they must not behave too strongly, so as not to frighten the enemy army!" Li Chengding ordered in a deep voice.

Soon, the 3,000 Huainan army formed a formation and waited in an open area for the arrival of the Baekje people, but they waited for a long time but the Baekje people still did not reach the battlefield.

"What's going on? Why is the enemy's march so slow? Don't enemy generals even know the truth about the speed of their soldiers? Or do they want to use this method to irritate our army? Li Chengding's face was calm, but he was thinking in his heart.

He didn't know that it wasn't that the Baekje people didn't want to speed up the march, but that their soldiers could only march so fast.

At this time, the total population of the Silla Peninsula was only about 2 million, and the population of Baekje was less than 1 million, and the reason why they were able to maintain an army of more than 100,000 was because they adopted a conscription system that integrated soldiers and peasants.

The advantage of adopting this system is that there are many troops, such as the Ming Dynasty's guard system maintained more than a million troops, and the early Tang Dynasty's government military system also maintained a large army with a small population.

However, while this system of integrating soldiers and peasants provides a sufficient source of soldiers, it also brings an important problem to the army, that is, the training level of soldiers is insufficient, and the combat effectiveness of the army is not comparable to that of recruitment.

This gap is not only mentioned in the time of fighting on the battlefield, but also in the speed of marching.

Although the conscription system adopted by Huainan today costs much more money and food than the conscription system, so that the Huainan army can only maintain 250,000 troops at present, the training level of these troops is much higher than that of the Baekje army, which adopts the conscription system.

Therefore, when Li Chengding judged the time of arrival of the enemy army based on the speed of the Huainan army's march, he did not know that the Baekje army could not move so fast at all.

"No matter why the enemy is coming so slowly, this battle is bound to be won!" Li Chengding thought to himself.

This was the first time he led a large army to engage the enemy army as the main general, although the enemy's strength was only 4,000 people, and he himself only had 3,000 people, which was really insignificant compared to the scale of the hundreds of thousands of people in the Huainan Expedition, but it was of great significance to Li Chengding personally.

"At the age of sixteen, the king led his troops with my father to quell the rebellion of Feng Hongduo, the assassin of Shengzhou, and the scale of his first battle was even smaller than this time, but the king was able to become famous in one battle, so that the generals did not dare to underestimate it. Now Ben is going to play majestic! Li Chengding secretly admonished himself in his heart.

After calming down, Li Chengding chose to continue waiting.

After another long time, the Baekje people finally arrived at the battlefield and began to line up.

"The formation is not strict, the soldiers are old and weak, many soldiers are not armor-piercing, and their faces are not high-spirited when they are about to fight, some are just full of exhaustion, it seems that the enemy's combat strength should not be high, even compared with those state soldiers in Huainan, it may be inferior. Could it be that these Baekje people were sent to death by their generals? ”

Li Chengding shook his head after secretly observing the state of the enemy army.

On the other side, Park Young-hui, the commander of the Baekje army, was also observing the enemy army in front of him.

Park Young-hui is not yet 30 years old this year, but he is already a general in command of 4,000 troops, and the reason why he can be reused is because his family is relatively prominent.

Silla and the early Tang Dynasty had many things in common, that is, the power of the family was extremely powerful, and each powerful family controlled a large number of cities, and they were subordinate to the royal family of Silla at the top, and had complete rule over the bottom.

In their territory, these families are equivalent to a single family. Standing lords.

In the last years of Silla, after Zhen Xuan established the Baekje Kingdom, this situation has not changed in the slightest.

And this Park Young-hui was born in a big family in Jeonju, so he was able to be so reused at a young age.

This time, he was ordered to clear out the Silla enemy army that suddenly came from the sea, and Park Young-hui thought it was just a simple task at first, after all, the strength of the Silla army was far inferior to that of their Baekje country.

So at the beginning he was confident that he would be able to win easily.

However, when he got closer to the enemy, he found that the problem seemed to be a little different from what he thought: the proportion of enemy soldiers wearing armor was too high.

He didn't know that the Huainan army in front of him was the most elite soldier, and all kinds of equipment were naturally the best, although it was not guaranteed that everyone would have a good armor, but at least they had some protective things.

In contrast, because the Baekje army adopts the system of integrating soldiers and farmers, the soldiers' weapons and armor need to be prepared by themselves, so many soldiers from poor families are not even equipped with the weapons they use, so how can they have the financial resources to equip the armor?

The same is true of the Silla army, but the enemy army in front of him has such a high armor-piercing ratio, which makes Park Young-hui feel a little solemn: "Could it be the newly formed elite soldiers of the Silla people?" ”

At this time, he didn't expect that the enemies in front of him were not the Silla people he thought, after all, he also knew that the Tang Dynasty was also in turmoil now, and various feudal towns were fighting each other, so how could he have the spare strength to send troops to them?

So Park Young-hui only thought that the enemy army in front of him was an elite Silla army.

As long as it was the Silla army, it would be easy to do, the Silla people were rotten internally, the morale of the army was low, even if they used good equipment to form an army, but this did not change the inherent weakness of the Silla people.

"Maybe defeat them and take their armor from them, so that my soldiers won't all get a set of armor?"

Park Young-hui suddenly thought that as soon as this idea arose, it took deep root in his heart.

"Charge! Charge at the enemy immediately, break their morale, and snatch their armor! Park Young-hui ordered loudly.

Based on the experience of fighting the Silla army in the past, the morale of the Silla people was generally very low, and as long as the morale of the opponent was overwhelmed with a ferocious charge, it would not be long before the enemy army would be defeated.

So without even thinking about it, Park Young-hui adopted this simplest and most practical tactic against the Silla people.

Suddenly, without any temptation or deployment around the enemy's rear, 3,000 Baekje soldiers, led by their respective officers, launched a charge against the Huainan army at the fastest speed.

And the remaining 1,000 men are in reserve, ready to be used at a critical time.

On the other side, seeing that the Baekje army rushed directly like this, not only many soldiers were stunned, but also Li Chengding, the main general, was a little surprised.

"Can you still fight like this in a war? What kind of tactic is it to charge directly as soon as you arrive on the battlefield? On the side, He Jingzhu asked with some confusion.

In the Central Plains, if the two armies were in a position to start a battle, generally the two sides would not put in the main force as soon as they came up, but chose to test the enemy's weak points by various means, or send troops to make a detour through the enemy's rear, or first engage in a confrontation with a small army to undermine the enemy's morale, and so on.

The way in which the Baekje army in front of him launched a charge as soon as they came up had never encountered it before.

Although I don't understand why the enemy army made such a choice, this does not prevent Li Chengding from responding immediately.

"Stabilize the formation, the crossbowmen will step forward, and the infantry will hold the formation......"

"He Jingzhu, order you to immediately lead five hundred people to detour through the rear of the enemy army and launch an attack!"

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Li Chengding gave orders in a voice as calm as possible, without hurry or slow, giving people a sense of calmness.

If the enemy's stunned charging method is used to deal with those undertrained and demoralized troops, it can still work, after all, the momentum of such a charge is still very strong, and if it is those troops with low morale, they may be defeated by this wave of charge.

However, in the Central Plains, where the conscription system was adopted, the morale of the troops in the feudal towns was generally not low, and it was basically difficult to achieve results by adopting this kind of "wave flow" style of fighting.

The momentum of the charge is high, but the physical exertion is great, and when the enemy withstands their attack and launches a counterattack, this is often the time for them to collapse.

Therefore, in the war in the Central Plains, this kind of blind charge tactic was basically not seen.

However, Li Chengding still looked down on the Baekje army, and he had originally ordered the soldiers not to fight too hard, so as not to frighten the enemy army, but when the actual battle began, he found that the enemy army was too indiscriminate.

When the Baekje army rushed within range of the Huainan army's archers, with a command, the Huainan army's army suddenly fired a volley of arrows, and a dense and accurate rain of arrows was about to knock down the Baekje soldiers who were basically not wearing armor.

The momentum of the Baekje army's charge suddenly stopped, and then, after only a few breaths, another rain of arrows came, knocking down a group of Baekje soldiers again.

"Run for your life!"

"The enemy is too fierce to rush through!"

"Don't go to death again, run for your life!"

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What Li Chengding and other Huainan generals didn't expect was that after only two rounds of arrow rain, the Baekje army, which was still menacing just now, collapsed, and at this time, the five hundred soldiers led by He Jingzhu who were preparing to go around to the rear of the enemy army had just set off at this time!

"This ......"

Li Chengding and the others looked at each other, obviously not expecting the enemy army to be so unbeatable.

"Isn't that a fraud? Won't there be a large number of enemy troops in ambush ahead to lure our troops forward? Sima Fu laughed dryly and said with some uncertainty.